skills affect their abilities to learn and thus exacerbate the problem of education disparity between low and high SES neighborhoods.

Research shows that lower SES students have lower and slower academic achievement as compared with students of higher SES. This may be attributed to the abundance of resources available to the upper and upper middle class school districts and parents, while the equivalent in areas which are predominantly lower-middle/working class do not have the resources (for staffing quality teachers, updating textbooks,